There were some times when slavery was legal in the North after the US was formed, but not for long, nor was it widely practiced as opposition to it was the greatest. Massachusetts’ Supreme Court actually banned it in the early 1780s declaring it unconstitutional under their state’s constitution.
The 1619 Project’s basic premise is that this country was built on slavery. That’s obviously false - slavery actually stifled economic progress where it was practiced. The North vastly outperformed the South in every economic aspect - including in agriculture - without slavery there was far more innovation and commerce in the North. The North was the country’s economic engine. That is a major reason the South was not able to prevail - it simply did not have the resources and the wealth of the North.
Agreed. Reading Shelby Foote’s 3 volume Civil War set and I’m of the opinion that if the south had half the manufacturing that the north had, it may have been a different world.
It’s also what concerns me about all of our manufacturing moving overseas today.
A lot of error in your statements. It would take too long to address all the issues with what you said, so I won't.
Some of what you said is correct, but some is misleading.
That is one of the biggest canards abolitionists pushed.
Still swallowed by neocons today
“We’re saving you from yourselves and your impoverished culture”